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Rounding out its two-week mini Mozart festival, the Boston Symphony Orchestra paid tribute to the Austrian composer and prodigy with a tepid performance of his final three symphonies last Thursday. The night—save for a rousing performance of Mozart’s “Jupiter” symphony—could best be characterized as an uninspired rendition of Mozart’s works.Led by American-born conductor James Levine, now in his fifth season as music director, the BSO performed the last of its three-program survey of Mozart symphonies with his final, best known...
...whose grandfather had co-founded Scripps-Howard Newspapers, Howard recruited smart, aggressive talent throughout the 1970s and let it loose to dig up dirt, badger Denver's cowboy-booted establishment and raise journalistic hell. Occasional newsroom gunplay and rampant staff drug use aside, those Hunter Thompson-like efforts paid off: the Rocky topped the Post's circulation in 1980. (Read "How to Save Your Newspaper...
...Hiring a new person in a strong downturn takes a certain amount of courage. At this point courage is being aided by the calculus of workforce filled with a huge number of people who are willing to work for much less than what they were paid in their former jobs and are often overqualified for most new positions they might find. Investment bankers actually do look for work as retail store clerks if they need the money enough. Unfortunately, no company in the retail industry will hire a soul until the next holiday season...
...according to welcoming remarks, was indisposed. A substitute read Faust’s writings on the reality of war and the effect it has on American soldiers, transforming them into “different men... men required to deny, to numb basic human feelings at costs they may have paid for decades after the war ended.” As Yo-Yo Ma and Charlie Albright ’11 on the piano played an excerpt from “Quartet for the End of Time” by Olivier Messiaen, who composed the piece while held as a prisoner...
...race during Alaska's centennial celebrations in 1967. The inaugural title was won by Isaac Okleasik, who pocketed $25,000 for speeding through the abbreviated 27-mile jaunt. After a one-year hiatus due to lack of snow, the modest second running in 1969 drew just 12 mushers and paid out a mere $1,000. (See TIME's Top 10 Endurance Competitions...